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Just curious what type of jobs and salary you guys can get with the degrees you have.
What is your job/degree and salary
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MD, psychiatry
JD, law
As a psychiatrist alone, I was making about $210,000 per year. As an attorney, I make about $110,000 per year. Now I'm slowly resuming a part-time practice (psychiatry) and will maintain a small patient base, so I expect to make more; however, the pay cut was worth it!
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MD, psychiatry
JD, law
As a psychiatrist alone, I was making about $210,000 per year. As an attorney, I make about $110,000 per year. Now I'm slowly resuming a part-time practice (psychiatry) and will maintain a small patient base, so I expect to make more; however, the pay cut was worth it!
Please elaborate on why being a lawyer was worth the switch.
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I guess, if I had to really analyze my statement, I would say that I never really wanted to be a physician. I went to college and ended up majoring in government and poli sci with the intent of going to an ivy law school afterwards. I ended up doing a post bac in biomed sciences and applying to medical school due to paternal pressure. I got accepted into a big-ten medical school, graduated with excellent grades, went on to do a combo IM/PSYCH residency, and found myself hating my job and my life.
I thought about going back to IM only, but alas...psychiatry paid the bills and wasn't bad, but I became what many therapists call a "pill pusher", doing 10-20 minute med reviews, an occasional PE, and rounding at some local hospitals, including two private psychs.
As I got older, I realized how much I really regretted not going into law. I enjoyed some of the forensic work I had been exposed to. A colleague, who is a PhD clinical psych, went back for her JD and I decided..WTF...so I did it part-time and the rest is history.
Bottom line, do what you enjoy and do it well.
